WAR ON GANGS
NATIONAL ISSUE IN U.S.A
VANCOUVER, September 11
The rising tide of public anger in the United States against the operations of criminal gangs, which has been quickened by two recent fights between rival gangs, has found its way into national politics. It may even be made an issue ifor the next election for the United States Presidency, Mr Franklin Roosevelt, son of the ex-President, who is Governor of New York, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, delivered a long speech at' Kent, Connecticut, in which he inaugurated a nation-wide drive against' all
gangsters. . The war on the gangs in New York itself has begun in earnest. Special measures are being taken to deal with the machine gun gangs. The aid of electrical science has bepn invoked, and a special steel has been manufactured. Bight types of receiving sets have been tried by police motor cars, which cruise about the city and receive orders from a municipal low-wave station. Steel bullet-proof vests have been supplied for sharp-shooting riflemen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 8
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174WAR ON GANGS Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 8
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